Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1933 — Page 18

PAGE 18

1 lie Indianapolis limes (A ACRtrr*.HOWARD NKWIPAPER I H()WAnn Ml.OOir POWELL Editor EARL I). BAKER Bnino* Man**r Phone—K Ilcy 3551

' ' : j4,_ - " * rr<* Dw .. Gii Light anrt ‘hr rrnptt Will pi„4 Thar Own Bay

Member of United Pre*. Si ripp* - Hnw.ird Newspnper Alliance, .Newapaper Enter* pri? AFaociatlon. Newpaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Clreu'aLion*. and publlalied dally (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Tirnps i’tibliKhinjr •0.. 214-220 IVeat Maryland street. Indianapolis. Ind. Price In Marion county. 2 centa a copy; elsewhere. 3 cents—delivered t>y carrier 12 rents a week. Mail subscription rales In Indiana f.'i * year; outside of Indiana. 65 centa a month.

FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1933 THE PRESIDENT’S DECLARATION npHE PRESIDENT told the United States Chamber of Commerce Thursday night ft’hat is wrong with the country. It is lack of mass purchasing power. We can not t limb out of the depression until buying power begins to flow again through pay rolls. It is not only a question of justice for labor. It is' the need of industry for a market. Nov; that inflation is in sight and commodity prices have started to rise, the wage problem is more serious than ever. Past experience indicates that when the price level begins to rise after a long period of declining commodity prices, wages which have been curtailed previously lag behind the rise in the price level.” the President pointed out. “That result has in the past imposed upon those who labor an unfair burden; has prevented their just and equitable share in the profits of industry, and has limited the purchasing power of the overwhelming majority of our population.” Therefore, the President appealed to the business leaders “to increase your wage scales in conformity with and simultaneous with the rise in the level of commodity prices, in so far as this lies within your power.” But there is the rub. It is not within the power of the average employer to increase wages without going bankrupt. The reason is sweatshop competition—sweatshops in all industries. The majority of employers are powerless because of the short-sighted and unscrupulous minority which destroys more purchasing power by cutting low wages lower. Only the federal government can save industry, can protect the majority of employers from the minority. At least this is recognized by many business leaders—men like President Harriman of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Litchfield of the Goodyear company, and Mr. Teagle of Standard Oil. Here is the heart of the Roosevelt program. The President did not stop w r ith mere appeals to employers for higher wages—appeals which they alone are powerless to answer. He definitely pledged to them Thursday night that the government would help to stop this unfair competition. ”1 can assure you,” he promised, “that you will have the co-operation of your government m bringing these minorities to understand that their unfair practices are contrary to sound public policy.” To this end the President and secretary of labor are fighting for the short-hour and mini-mum-wage bill now in a house committee. To this general principle the administration is wholeheartedly committed. Whether in the specific form of this particular bill, or some other, the administration knows that such a measure is necessary to save industry from the pirates, to save labor from coolie wages or no wages, to restore mass buying power. The alternative is deeper depression.

OUR GOLD AND OUR WAR DEBTS bonds outstanding in the United States total, in round numbers. 86 billions, divided as follows: Domestic corporations, 47 billions. Federal, 21. State, county, municipal. 18. All the gold in the world is 11 billions. Obviously 86 can't be paid with 11, even if we had all the gold, which we don't. War debts, likewise, are payable in gold. But they, too, amount to more than all the gold. The restrictions on gold, with which we are ell becoming familiar through personal experience and observation, are teaching us a lesson, especially those who are holders of gold bonds and who now for the first time are reading what the fine type says. The lesson is that the war debt question involves something more than "they hired the money, didn’t they?” The bondholder is discovering that, so far as what is written in his bond is concerned, his position is very similar to that of the nation toward its foreign debtors. If all the gold bondholders insist on gold, there just isn't enough to go around. And that's all there is to it. So long as the United States called for gold according to the letter of the contract, moratoria or repudiation was the only answer—nlerely a matter of figures. Only as a means of payment other than gold are considered can settlement be reached. That goes for war debts, domestic debts, or any other form of debt, for the simple and inescapable and mathematical reason that you can't get blood out of a turnip. LITTLE RHODY ANOTHER thing to add to May's newfangled mirth is the news from Rhode Island. Little Rhody last Monday elected delegates tq its May 8 repeal convention. Its voters fairly shouted for repeal by electing wet delegates in a seven to one landslide. The Rhode Island election was significant in the fervency of the fight staged by the drys. In more than 100 churches on Sunday, ministers argued for the dry ticket. They charged that the legislature, in legalizing the beer saloon, had betrayed the public. The public took its betrayal manfully. This Rhode Island dry army apparently was mostly generals, a condition that seems to be common to the prohibition legions in all the states. In Indianapolis recently, the Rev. William R. Bell told a Methodist district conference that congregations are refusing to follow the pastors into the dry battles. w% **our church is not with us,” he said. “We

wage this liquor fight without support of much of our congregations.” Rhode Island Is the third state to vote on repeal, and the record to date is wet 100 per cent. Wisconsin and Michigan named wet delegates. Five other states will hold elections this month—Wyoming, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware. All are claimed for repeal. A BUSINESS MAN SEES LIGHT "INFLATION, farm relief, mortgage reduction, A banking control and the like are commendable, but they are likely to fail miserably unless they become integral parts of a comprehensive scheme of social planning. Our present complicated urban and industrial world order can not exist without planning. Either capitalism must plan or Socialism will step in to pick up the pieces and apply the plan. Scholars and theorists already have become converted to planning in large numbers, but it is desirable that such proposals also come from practical business leaders. Hence, we may with satisfaction call attention to the article on "Planning for Purchasing Power,” by Samuel S. Fels in the Survey Graphic. Fels takes as his point of departure the allimportant fact long emphasized by Prof. Simon N. Patten; namely, that in the last four or five hundred years, civilization has passed from a deficit to a surplus economy. It no longer is a question of producing enough to meet our element?ry needs, but rather one of distributing plenty. While recognizing the justice of the measure. Fels makes it clear that a mere negative attack upon greedy capitalists through higher income taxes will not solve our problems. The only way out is intelligent planning. This requires, first of all, a definite conception of purpose and goal. Fels is clear upon this point. “More work and higher wages; balanced production and anew security for earnings and the providing-power they stand for; expanded consumption and higher standards of living; a real share in the fortunes of America for the rank and file of our people, and their participation in the business of bringing such things about—these to my mind should be the practical objectives of planning. Fels would establish a federal trade system, presided over by seven outstanding men. This board of seven would segregate and organize each of the major industrial operations of the country in an association called a guild. First task of this board would be that of investigation. It also would make the widest use of publicity, exposing corporations whose operation is characterized by excessive profits, high prices, and low wages. It would control working time, with the aim of reducing the working period without corresponding reductions in earnings. It would formulate and enforce minimum wage laws. It would regulate profits, keeping them at a point which would assure an adequate fund for high wages and permanent purchasing power. Speculative enterprise would be eliminated In those products which are unmistakable essentials of human life. A good principal to follow would be that introduced by Justice Brandeis into the Massachusetts law governing public service corporations; namely, that dividends can go up only when rates to consumers go down. The main point upon which Fels seems lamentably out of touch with reality is his personnel of such a governing board for industry. He mentions the name of some men who have played a conspicuous part in gutting our economic order.

SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES 'T'HE present moment is an excellent time for all of us to keep in mind the remark with which Mr. Roosevelt stepped into the White House—that the only thing we really have to fear these days is fear itself. On the surface, the state of the nation right now is ominous enough to scare almost any one. Both the domestic and foreign horizons are dark with clouds. Any man who wanted to argue that the end of all things was about at hand could find plenty of material for his thesis. But it would be very easy for us to concentrate on our troubles so thoroughly that we failed to see how much real progress actually has been made. Banks may be reopened at a much slower rate than we had hoped; but the dreadful era of doubt and uncertainty at least is passed and the banking problem today is not so much a matter of stopping a slide downhill as of accelerating a climb upward. Unemployment and factory production figures still may be distressingly low; but such basic industries as steel and automobile manufacturing are showing better than seasonal up-trends, and there are signs that the rise in commodity and security prices are not entirely due to the talk of inflation. The turmoil in lowa testifies abundantly that agricultural discontent is still with us; but farm prices have turned upward, and the purchasing power of the farmer has been in-rt-easing ever since the middle of the winter. The pendulum swings slowly, of course. The effects of four years of disaster can not be wiped out overnight. But there are good reasons for believing that the swing back in the right direction actually has commenced, andjthat if we are not yet out of the woods, at least we are getting to the point where a little more sunlight filters down through the branches overhead. If we can just keep from getting jittery we ought to make out all right. There is no sense, of course, in denying that some things look very discomforting. But unless we permit ourselves to get scared out of our senses, we ought to be able to find the right road and stay on it. UNDERSTANDING CANCER ' | ’'HE campaign against cancer continued in bad times as well as in good times; and its chief weapon is an adequate public understanding of just what cancer is and just how it ough to be treated Dr. C. A. Gerster, chairman of the New York City Cancer committee, points out that three simple facts about cancer need to be understood: First, that if discovered early and treated promptly and properly, it is often curable; second, that it can be avoided by ijjemoval of conditions causing chronic irritation;

and third that it is not contagious and not inherited. “Many persons.” says Dr. Gerster, "avoid going to a doctor even when they notice suspicious symptoms, because of their belief that every cancer always is incurable from the start. “Many others fall victims to the advertisements of quacks, who promise cancer cures ‘without the knife—promises which in the course of time only too often prove valueless. “A better understanding of the disease should lead people to seek competent advice more quickly.” THE “RED MENACE” TF you're inclined to worry about the danger of Communism in this country, you might consider the following rather significant fact: In Cleveland, a typical American manufacturing city which has suffered from the depression about as much as any place has, the Communists made big plans for a May day celebration. They climaxed their celebration with a parade and a lot of speeches. About 1,800 people marched in their parade; between 5,000 and 6,000 came to hear the speeches. At the same hour in the same city there was an American League baseball game—just a run-of-mine game, one of the 154 of the regular season. It drew some 5,000 fans through the turnstiles. When an ordinary ball game can draw as well as a Red May day demonstration—in an industrial city hit by four years of depression -the country isn t in any very great danger of going Communist. SPIRIT OF THE NAVY may be said about the dirigibles used by the United States navy there doesn t seem to be anything in particular wrong with the young men who make up their crews. Moody E. Erwin, one of the Akron’s three survivors, went to his home in Memphis, Tenn., for a month's furlough not long ago. Reporters, naturally enough, asked him a lot of questions about his experience; among other things they asked him if he had been scared by the crash. “Scared?” he replied. “Were you ever in an auto crash? Did you have time to get scared? Did it get my nerve? Say, man, that's what the navy’s for. it takes nerves out of you.” And so, in line with this talk, the young sailor already has applied for assignment to the crew of the new Macon. If that sort of spirit is general, the navy jet may make a go of its big dirigibles. BUSINESS SWINGS UPWARD that business at last is beginning to show signs of a revival is contained in a summary of general business conditions issued by the federal reserve board at Washington. This report points out that there now is apparently an increase in the activities of commodity and security markets. The decline in the production and distribution of commodities late in February and early in March has been halted, and an upswing is taking place, reflected especially in the steel industry —which, you might remember, has always been regarded as a barometer of general business conditions. All this doesn’t mean that good times will be here day after tomorrow. But it does seem to indicate that we are on the way back up. First obligation of the undergraduate is to think, says Princeton dean. Parade of unemployed graduates to Washington should give them something to think about.

M.E.TracySays:

CONGRESS is not abdicating, but merely granting the President power to meet emergencies as, if and when, they arise. Such action is necessary to meet an uncertain and constantly changing situation. The government must be clothed with authority to act quickly and effectively. In no other way can it protect public interest, either from the moves and demands of foreign nations, or from manipulated trade and finance at home. The idea that congress should set up rigid rules for accomplishing this or that particular purpose to display its stuff is ridiculous. There comes a time when the various departments of this government must yield to the necessity of co-operation. In war we do not quarrel about granting the President unusual power. It is taken for granted that armed efficiency calls for unified control and flexibility of movement. The present emergency is akin to war. Asa matter of record, it already has caused the American people greater losses than the World war. Furthermore it has been aggravated by adverse action on the part of other countries, such as arbitrary depreciation of money, the boosting of tariffs, and limitation of trade by various means. a a a THE President is trying to arrange certain agreements whereby the general situation will be eased. He can not do this successfully without bargain and compromise. He can not bargain and compromise effectively if his hands are tied. He must have power to take drastic measures, and he must be given it in such way that those who sit across the table know that he has it. The thought that our chief executive couldn’t do very much without referring everything to congress, and that congress could be influenced by clever propaganda has played an important part in all this European stalling, hedging, and maneuvering. France, England, and other European countries have proceeded on the assumption that, no matter how brazenly they undermined our markets abroad by cheapening their money, we could be depended on to stand pat, because the President could not do much by way of retaliation and congress would not. a a a FRENCH leaders profess to be terribly upset by our temporary abandonment of the gold standard, proclaiming that France will stay with it, regardless. That's only some more sophistry. The gold content of the franc is only one-fifth of what it formerly was. which makes the President's power to lower that of the dollar by no more than one-half look rather mild. It may be necessary for the President to exercise that power in full to bring European governments into accord. On the other hand, it may be possible for him to make only partial use of it. He should be left free to use his discretion when the time for action arrives. No one wants to go further than the exigency requires. No one can tell how far that will be. Under such circumstances, congress is doing the nation real service in granting the President adequate authority.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to !50 words or less.) Bt j. w. h. In regard to Mr. Cox’s item in your issue of May 1, I am heartily in accord w'ith his view's. The Times is not the open and fighting piece of paper it always has been, and I w'onder. I have heard several others say. “Is it being throttled by utilities and corporations? Why not come out stronger and hit the nail on the head as it used to do. and don’t let the big one slip anything over—but w'hat you can see it in big lines in The Times. It is the only paper edited in Indiana that has the guts to come out and call black by the name of black, as all other papers I read show the news of the day covered with salad dressing. So I w'ould like to pick up my Times, and I don’t live in Indianapolis either or close by, and read such items as how many Ford trucks Fry has sold or the estimate in bushels of potatoes the Merchants of Marion county have put out to the already undernourished poor or w'hy all criminals ’ would rather go before any judge in Indianapolis than Judge Baker. There is a reason, and The Times used to speak out and give the true cause for some of these things. So here’s to The Times, the only one of its kind in Indiana. Bv Ex-A. T. & T. Employee During the Hoover administration. Walter Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, made the following statement. "The cure for unemployment is employment.” These w'ords w'ere hailed by party leaders as a sign that “the largest corporation in the world” was to be the leader out of the depression. Since the time these remarks were made, this same corporation, under the same management, has

IT well may be said that there is hardly an organ or tissue of the human body that has not been approached surgically for the benefit of mankind. The brain is no longer viewed, from the surgical point of view, with the aw ; e and respect that surrounded it formerly. A surgeon even has removed one-half of the cerebrum of a woman. Os particular interest has been the growth of another specialty in the surgical field, the orthopedic surgeon. In an early day he w'as a harness maker, developing braces, pads, casts, and devices of various types to aid the functions of weakened tissues. Now he performs conservative operations for restoring tissues to

THE world is in a race between education and destruction. Time and again during the last two weeks I was reminded of that sentence, first used by H. G. Wells shortly after the World war. It occurred to me last week in Philadelphia, as world-famous scientists gathered there for the annual meeting of the nation’s oldest scientific organization, the American Philosophical Society. I thought of it again this week in Washington as more scientists gathered for the meetings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and other scientific bodies. Wells’ description of the state of the world came to me with particular force during the demonstration at Constitution hall here when an audience which crowded the auditorium heard the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra playing in Philadelphia. At that moment, the triumphs and powers of modern science stood forth with particular emphasis. Not only did the music come forth from the loud speakers on the stage with exceptionclarity and fidelity, but with so yTirked a directional

One Reason We're Not Making Much Progress

.... t;. i. . . . . YL- *-- * \ I -y . >ivssS?.-- w

: : The Message Center : :

Orthopedic Surgery Is Great Step Ahead

Science Gains Despite World Depression BY DAVID DIETZ

Blood Boils

By M. E. C. WHEN I read the first letter written by "Taxpayer of April 24,” I fairly boiled. In fact, I boiled so hard I couldn’t think of anything to say that properly w'culd express my opinion of him and to think he had the nerve to write the second one. I think the letter written by R. W. Patterson expresses about the nearest correct description of such q thing, for it hardly couL* be a human being. It certainly doesn’t have any conscience, feelings, or anything of that sort. If it did. it surely couldn’t have ventured out again after the roasting it has already received. As to his statement that a dirty neck is the badge of the unthrifty, again, I say, it couldn't be human. My husband has been out of employment for almost tw r o years and if his neck has been dirty at times it certainly wasn’t because he didn’t try to get the money to buy soap to w-ash it. During these tw'o years he has made a living for the four of us without help from any relief organization. If Taxpayer had been laid off from work with as little cash on hand as my husband—and I’ll certainly say it w'asn’t much—could he have done as well? performed the following good deeds toward assisting in employment. It has cut the working time of employes to four and one half days, which reduced the already meager salaries of the’*men to the point where they no longer will sustain the falimies of the men in decent manner. The force of this corporation has been cut until it is almost half of what it was when President Gifford made his statement to Herbert Hoover. Employes are forced to belong to an association which is controlled

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association ?.nd of Hvgeia. the Health Macaaine. normal condition, abolishing flatfeet, reconstructing clubfeet, restoring tw'isted and contorted arms and hands to normal appearance and function. Many of his operations are manipulative, involving motions under anesthesia to restore normal lines, and the use of casts to hold the tissues in fixed positions until repair has occurred. Then by suitable exercises and movements full function may oe acquired. The development of numerous cases of crippling after infantile paralysis and meningitis no longer is view'ed w'ith the horror that once was associated w'ith such conditions, primarily because orthopedic sur-

effect that the sound of each instrument seemed to originate on the stage in Washington at a spot corresponding exactly to the actual seat of each particular musician in Philadelphia. It was possible for Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the orchestra, by turning the amplification controls In his box in the Washington auditorium to increase the sound of the orchestra until it sounded like twenty orchestras all in one and until the roll of the kettle drums sounded like a salute fired by a battleship. The concert was a dramatic demonstration of the fact that there is no depression in scientific advance. While the world is battling to stave off economic chaos, science is moving forward at the greatest speed it has ever attained in the history of civilization. Despite the fact that laboratories in all parts of the world have felt the economic depression and are working on curtailed funds, the advance of science is going on just the same. 1 A good example of this is the

by the management and which is supposed to give the employes a voice in the management, but which in reality is only a means of keeping the employe from becoming affiliated w'ith any other organization which might give him some power over the management. Indiana Bell employes are forced to take the highest price phone service with French phone and an extension phone which sometimes is placed in the basement or garage because of the small living quarters. Indiana Bell employes are requested, but in reality forced, to spend their spare time in selling phone service. The janitors in the long lines department have been laid off and regular employes been assigned to their duties. These are some of the ways this company is helping to whip the depression and at the same time rates are held at peak prices and the company earnings for the last quarter show'ed a profit of $1.72 a share of common stock. A dividend rate of $9 a share is being paid by this company, which is above earnings, and employes of the company are being cut, laid off, fired for minor infractions of rules and made to do the work of twice as many men, so that the company can continue to pay dividends above earnings. If the dividend rate w : ere cut to $6 a year, all the men who have been laid off could be re-employed and the company could put away a surplus in the already bloated sinking fund. We voted for anew deal. Why can’t the men who promised the new 7 deal investigate conditions in such companies and bring some pressure to bear that will force them to quit capitalizing on the depression so that the big stockholders, such as Sun Life of Canada and the Prudential Insurance Company can raise the salaries of the officers to a mark 50 per cent over those paid in 1929?

gery offers a hope of recovery after such paralysis. In connection with such recovery, re-education of weakened Tissues and the use of the sw'imming pool to support the tissues while undergoing re-education has been a phenomenal step in advance. The growth of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, in which the President of the United States himself undergoes such reconstructive education, is a fine example of what such methods have accomplished. In connection with the development of orthopedic surgery has come a tremendous equipment of tables, splints, casts and apparatus of many different types, reflecting the way in which machines Lave been brought out of industry and into the field of reconstruction and repair of human bodies.

“second polar year,” now in progress. The nations of the world find themselves divided upon many political and economic issues. War clouds'hung over a half-dozen areas. But the scientists of the world are in agreement upon this important co-operative study of weather conditions, the earth’s magnetism, the effect of solar radiation, cosmic rays and other influences upon the earth, and related subjects. In the opinion of many observers, the big need of the world today is for the social sciences to catch up to the physical sciences. And many scientists, turning from their own specialties to view the affairs of the world at large, are hoping that the same courage, tolerance and unselfishness which makes possible the progress of science can be brought to bear upon social affairs. They hope that the world can achieve the same sort of co-opera-tion to prevent wars that is achieved by the scientists of the different nations when they unite their efforts to track down a disease germ, isolate anew chemical or analyze the* effect of the moon’s gravitational puli upon the earth.

MAY 5, 1933

It Seems to Me ■ BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, May 5.-Three radicals, so the story goes, I came away from a mass meeting and sat down to beer and pretztls. The talk grew cultural and one of them mentioned the four Marx brothers. “This.” he said, “is the art ot the bourgeoise. It is vapid, vulgar and devoid of class consciousness. Particularly Harpu.' But the ranking member of the trio answered and replied: “I find them very amusing. I saw them in a talking picture only a few days ago, and I got a lot of laughs.” The two contenders turned to the third man in the hope that he might reak the tie. But he was timid and accustomed to discipline. He ii.ared to commit himself. “Comrades, he asked, “just what c the party position in regard to he four Marx brothers?” tt n u Object of Pity WHICH reminds me that I have a letter from a reader who writes; “I am afraid that from now on you will be a pitiful figure wielding a straw lance. Nobody cares what you stand for, because you represent no group. You'll probably continue to address protest meetings and excite the risibilities of the liberal-minded old '.adies by your drollery. "Perhaps you still will raise your voice in defense of the Scottboro boys and Torn Mooney, but what of it? It will be .greeted with indulgent smiles and the explanation: 'Heywood likes to be unconventional. Did you notice that he wears his tie over his left shoulder?’ ” Well, I'd rather have it there than knotted tight around my neck. And I certainly don’t object to its going to the left. As for the lance of straw, it may be a poor thing, but it is my own. And I think it may still serve as a swatter. I wonder where the notion conies from that a theory of economic or political action can bew rapped up in brown paper, wound ’round with twine, duly labeled and thereupon become the exclusive property of some unwilful group of nine or ninety. Men who are verbally vehement in their desire to do away with the private ownership of mines and railroads and an the means of production still will insist that they ! possess a potent, right to all sincerI ity for belief in the necessity of coI operative commonwealth. And this, some maintain, even i though they have checked the bunI die with the vague promise that I they may call around and claim it before the thirty days are up.

Not to Mention Crawling A RIGHTEOUS cause is bigger than any one man. It also is bigger than any executive committee. And I hold that no party should attempt to make its members do the goose-step before the organization itself has learned to walk. And if there is fighting to be done I’d rather go in w'ith some straw' and a broom handle than a pot of paste and a trunkful of labels. A drowning man uses good sense if he clutches even at a straw in preferenc to a slogan. Nor am I at all sure that it is an arch crime to say anything which may w'ith a lot of good luck make somebody laugh. I'm for leaving the hair shirts and the rueful countenances to Republican ex-Prcsi-dents. The radical movement w’as a lot better before all the Puritans hopped in. The whole point in objecting to life as w'e live it is that it has excluded too much fun. There’s been too much sorrow', too much misery, and too much w T ork already. a a a Votes of Yesteryear WHEN I w'as running for congress on the Socialist ticket, I often ran into the criticism that I couldn’t possibly be on the level, because I was having a fine time. Os course I had a fine time. That was one reason w'hy I was convinced that it was a good assignment to have accepted. I had a chance to go out every night and stand on ten or twelve street corners and make the same speech ten or twelve times over. I liked it. What’s wrong in that? In fact, I say distrust the man who approaches you solemnly and explains that he has enlisted in some cause or other at a grave personal sacrifice and that he functions only through a sense of duty. He may think that, but he is fooling himself. The people who accomplish anything in the world were full of zest and ginger and dancing all over God’s Armageddon. Discipline is for second lieutenants and deserving Democrats. From any distance at all it looks to me like a spinach bed. (Copyright. 1933. by The Timesi Gray Cottage BY MARGARET E. BRUNER Not always grandeur lingers in the mind. For memory holds a cottage small and gray; No architect of note its plan designed, Yet firm and strong it seemed in every way. The path to it was flanked on either side With friendly trees, like guardians wise and good, And through their leafy branches I descried A window where flowers beckoned like a rood. Though I never have been inside its walls. I think of it in times of care and stress; It holds a simple charm that never palls, # And speaks in silent tones of gentleness, As if, in me, its peace it would instil] Os flowers that dream upon a window' sill. DAILY THOUGHT That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.—St. John 4:6. AS the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening. and vexatious, so the return of the soul toward God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. —Fenelon.